The Brookston Almanac

Discovery Day (Guam)

Stop the Clocks Day
Mother-in-Law’s Day
Feast of Fools
Multiple Personalities Day
Hemlock Day
National Cheese Doodle Day
Alimony Equality Day
Crispus Attucks Day
International Day of the Seal
Feast of Excited Insects (China, Korea)
Wedding of the March Drayads (Fairy)
St. Piran’s Day (patron of miners, Cornwall)
Navigium Isis (Ancient Egyptian Sailing Festival)
St. Phocas of Antioch’s Day (patron against snakebites)
Anthesteria begins (Festiavl of Flowers & Ancestor’s Ghosts Wanderings)

Howard Pyle
Antoine Cadillac
Gerardus Mercator (1512)
William Blackstone
Dean Stockwell
Hector Villa-Lobos
Eugene Fodor
Mariya Yamada
Lorin Maazel
Penn Jillette
James Merritt Ives
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Frederick Fritz Brekle (1849)
Frank Norris
Rex Harrison
Samantha Eggar
Henry II
Elisha Harris
Augusta Gregory
Rosa Luxembourg
Charles Fuller
James B. Sikking
Paul Sand
Elaine Page
Michael Warren
Fred Williamson
Alan Greenspan
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Del Crandall
Louis I “the Great”
Andy Gibb
Laurence Tisch
Michael Irvin

Chinese Calendar 1st began (1953 BCE)
Amazing Spiderman #1 published
Parachute invented (by Da Vinci)
Siege of the Alamo ended
Hall of Fame established (1900)
Boston Massacre (1770)
Term “Iron Curtain” coined (1946)
Air Brake patented
8 Hour, 5 Day work week began
Creem Magazine 1st published
Easter Seal campaign 1st began
Frodo & Samwise encounter Shelob (Hobbit)
Spitfire fighter plane 1st flew (1936)
Jenny McCarthy Show debuted on MTV (1997)
Phoebe Cates and Kevin Kline married (1989)
Joseph Stalin died of brain hemorrhage (1953)
Birdseye perfected frozen food process (1930)
Henry VI deposed by Duke of York (1461)
John Belushi died of an overdose (1982)
1st Crosswood Tournament held (Connecticut; 1978)
Cabot received a commission to discover lands for England
Twins Reginald & Ronald Kray sentenced to 30 years (1966)
Nazis began drafting 16-year old boys into Hitler Youth (1945)
Barry Sadler’s Ballad of the Green Beret reached No. 1 (1966)
1st Old Age Pensions created (Montana & Nevada; 1923)
Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean reached No. 1 (1983)
1st US alcohol temperance law enacted (Virginia colony; 1623)
Falstaff Brewing insured its beer yeast with lloyd’s of London for $1 million (1941)
Busch Gardens: the Old Country opened (Williamsburg, Virginia; 1975)
Trial batch of Anchor Small beer brewed (1997)
Moab Brewery opened (Utah; 1996)